The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-25

their early mercantile education was neg
lected Ask these men high in commercial
circles, and they will tell you they thank
God for this severe discipline of their early
clerkship. You can afford to endure the
wilderness march il it is going to end in the
vineyards and orchards of the promised land
But you say: "Will the womanly
clerks in our stores have promotionf
Yes. Time is coming when women will be
as well paid for their toll in mercantile cir
cles as men are now paid for their toll
Time is coming when woman will be al
lowed to do anything she can do we'll
1t is only a little while ago when
women knew nothing of telegra-
ply, and they were kept out of a
great many commercial circles where they
are now welcome; and the time will go on
until the woman who at one counter in n
store sells ten thousand dollars worth of
goods in a year will get as high a salary as
the man who at the other counter of the
same store sells ten Thousand dollars worth
of goods All honor to Lydia, the Chris
tian salsswoman. And in passing, may as
well saythat you merchants who have female
clerks in your stores ought to treat them with
great courtesy and kindness. When they
are not positively engaged, let them sit
down. In England and the United States
physicians have protested against the habit
of compelling the womanly clerks in the
stores to stand when it was not necessary for
them to stand. Therefore, | add to the pro
test of physicians the protest of the Chris
tian church and in the name of good health,
and that God who has made the womanly
constitution more delicate than mans, l de-
mand that you let her sit down.
The second counsel have to give to the
clerks who are here to-day is that you seek
out what are the lawful regulations of your
establishment, and then submit to them.
Every well ordered house has its usages.
In military life, ON ships deck, i'll CONNER
cial life there must be order and discipline.
Those people who do not learn how to obey
will never know how to command. | will
tell you what young man will reach ruin,
financial and moral; it Is the young man
who thrusts his thumb into his vest and
says: Nobody shall dictate to me, am my
own master | will not submit to the regli
latiOns of this house." Between an estab-
lishment in which all Che employees are
under thorough discipline and the establish
ment in which the employees do about as
they choose, is the difference between sue
cess and failure-between rapid ac-''-
mutation and utter bankruptcy. Do
not come to the store ten minu es
after the time. Be there within two
seconds after Do not think anything too
insignificant to do well. Do not say: Its
only just once" From the most important
transaction i'll commerce down to the par
ticular style in which you tie a string
around a bundle, obey orders Do not
get easily disguised While others in the
store may lounge, or fret, or complain,
you go with ready hands, and cheerful face,
and cOntented spirit to your work. When
the bugle sounds, the good soldier asks no
questions, but shoulders his knapsack, fills
his canteen and listens for the command of
March" Do not get the idea that your
interests and those of your employer are
antagonistic. His success will be your
honor. His embarrassment will be
your dismay. Expose none Of the frailties
of the firm. Tell no store secrets. Do not
blab. Rebuff those persons who come to
find out from clerks what ought never be
known outside the store. Do not be among
those young men who take on a mysterious
air when something is said against the firm
that employs them, as much as to say: II
could tell you some things if / would, but
WON'T Do not be among those who imagine
they can build themselves up by pulling
somebody else down. Be not ashamed to be
q subaltern.
Again: | counsel clerks in this house TO
search out what are the unlawful and dis
honest demands of an establishment. and
resist them. In the six thousand years that
have passed there has never been an occasion
when it was ones duty to sin against God
IL Is never TlBub 10 10 WRONG. IL UIfe n6au
men of the firm expect of you dishonesty
disappoint them ''Oh," you say, II should
lose my place, then" Better lose your place
than lose your soul. But you win not lose
your place Christian heroism is always
honOred. You go to the head man of your
store, and say: "Sr, want to serve you:
| want TO oblige you; il is from no lack of
industry on my part, but this thing seems to
me to be wrong, and it is sin against my
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| beg you, sir, to excuse me" He
may flush up and swear, but he
will cool down, and he will have more ad-
miration for you than for those who submit
to his evil dictation; and while they sink,
you will rise. Do not, because of seeming
temporary advantage, give up your charac-
ter, young man. Under God, that is the
only thing you have to build on. Give up
that, you give up everything, That EN-
ployer asks a young man to hurt himself
for time and for eternity, who expects him
to make wrong entry, on change an in
voice, or say goods cost so much when they
cost less; or impose upon the verdancy of a
customer, or misrepresent a style of fabric.
How dare he demand of you anything so
insolent!
There is one style Of temptation that
comes on a great many of our clerks, and
that is upon those who are engaged in what
Is called drumming. NOW, tilat Occupa-
ton is Just as honorable as any other, if it
be conducted i'm accord with ones conscience.
In this day, when there are so many rival
ries in business, all our commercial estab-
lishments ought to have men abroad who
are seeking out for opportunities of mer-
chandise. There can be no objection 10
that. But there are professed Christian
merchants in the week-night prayer meet
ing who have clerks abroad in New York,
conducting merchants Of Cincinnati, and
Chicago, and St Louis, through the debau-
cherries of the great town, in order to secure
their custom for the store. There are in
stores in New York and Brooklyn, drawers
in which there are kept moneys which the
clerks are TO go to and get whatever
they want to conduct these people
through the disipations Of the
city. The head men Of the firm wink at IL,
and in some places actually demand it--pro-
fessed Christian merchants. One would
think that the prayer would freeze ON their
lips and they would fall back dead at tho
sound Of their own song What chance is
there for young men when commercial os-
tablishments expect such things OF them
Among all things Internal, pronounce that
the most damuable Young man, how will
that firm trent you when you Hre utterly
despoiled and dragged ont with sin, going
through the hRunts Of iniquity for the pur-
p0o Of getting customers for their store.
How will they treat yOnf q. they viii give
you a pensioD They viii build you fine
bousel They win gst you horse and ear
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